Join the Seasonal Attribution Project
The debate about whether the increased flooding we are experiencing in the UK is due to human activity causing global warming or whether it is a natural weather cycle, continues to rage. Hopefully a new study by Oxford University climate scientist Myles Allen, will give more weight to the argument that global warming is the primary cause. Allen’s group are running thousands of simulations of one particular flood that occurred in the UK in 2000.
More than 6000 ordinary people have joined the study by allowing their computers to be used as additional processing power. You too can join in the study by downloading the software on the Seasonal Attribution Project website. The software allows the study group to use your CPU and bandwidth when you are logged on, to enhance the overall computing power of the project.
The study is running computer models of the flood with either human activity included or just natural activity. The computer models will demonstrate whether natural activity could have caused the flooding or whether human activity was the main contributor. The study cannot prove definitively if human activity is the primary cause, but it can demonstrate the high probability, hopefully to a degree which will put it beyond doubt that human activity is the primary cause of climate change.
